siamdave
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posted 29 September 2006 09:58 AM
Just in case anyone is interested in this story, I gotta say something here, it's been buggin me. The Thai media has been uniformly pushing to get rid of Thaksin for the last year, for reasons that are not entirely clear to me. The man may well be corrupt, although why the richest man in the country would need to do this is never explained - the majority of MPs are undoubtedly corrupt, but they always have been, and it seems odd to suddenly make this kind of issue of it. But back to the media - it has been constant 'get rid of Taksin' stuff for the last year - even though over 60% of the voters voted for him first 6 years ago, and then about 18 months ago at the last election - and during all this "get rid of Taksin stuff' in the media, there are almost no stories at all from these 60% of the people supporting him (I have written a couple of letters about this, and they didn't get published, amidst the constant flow of letters complaining about the guy). The coup may have had something to do with the fact that there was going to be another election in a few weeks, and every indication was that Taksin was going to get yet another majority government, which the wealthy elite, who own the newspapers of course, apparently did not want to face, or explain, or whatever, after a year of agitating to get rid of him. But I wanted to point out the incredible hypocricy of the media here in Thailand, complaining about Taksin 'shutting down democratic media', when they have been front and center for the last year in leading the propaganda drive to get rid of him, and giving no voice whatsoever to the majority of Thai people who support the guy. Just so you know. Sort of like listening to the mainstream Canadian media - don't believe everything you read, I guess.
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